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Timber Lake Broadband Manager Ryan Farlee did not resign as hinted by an item on the posted agenda for the Timber Lake City Council meeting Monday night but decided to stay on. Farlee told the council that, after the way things were at the last meeting (where broadband assistant Terry Grove was released), he had applied for and been offered another job but

All three judges at the regional one-act play contest in Mobridge on January 21 gave the Timber Lake High School drama department’s one act play, “Homefront,” superior ratings and sent it on to state competition. Shaun Maher and Ethan Schaffer received Outstanding Actor awards.

It is happening. A resident has lived at and received mail at RR 2, Box 98, and suddenly, without moving, he finds himself at 12812 303rd Ave. Rural mail customers in Dewey County may have received mail at a Rural Route or Highway Contract Route address for decades. Now they will be required to use physical locations designated by 911 addressing. Recently, residents in Dewey County have received notification of their physical addresses which will be used for emergency dispatch by fire departments, ambulances, and law enforcement. The US Postal Service, along with UPS, FedEx and other delivery services, will be using those addresses to deliver mail and packages.

Jim Mraz scored 27 points to take back Top Gun honors for the second half of pool season. The Nine Inch Nails are still on their game and are still in first. The Nails would like to stretch their lead but the Slingers did gain a little on them last week. Here is how it went. Fourth place Strokers were at home at The Coop with visiting team, first place Nine Inch Nails. It was a good match as every round came down to the last game and total points was still up for grabs with the last game of the night. The Nails came out on top with a 4-1 win to keep first and the Strokers stayed fourth, For the Nails, Steve Iron Road scored 22, Lance Brown Otter 17, Larry “Waterman” Simpson 10, and Shawn Running Hawk, 3.

Thanks to a couple of amateur bone collectors and the research of a paleontologist at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the mystery surrounding a dinosaur that for a century had only a body and no head has finally been solved.

The Timber Lake School Board, meeting on Monday, conducted an evaluation of Supt. Jarod Larson, approved a teacher contract, and hired track coaches. The board met in closed session for an hour prior to the regular meeting to evaluate Larson and then met with him in a second executive session to discuss the evaluation. Larson is on a two-year contract. The board approved a contract with Emily Goddard to teach in the second grade. She and Rita Longare team-teaching, conducting some classes with the 26 students together and some in smaller groups. Goddard has an elementary education degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and has done mission work overseas for the past three years, Supt. Larson told the board.

A Timber Lake team, Grady Kraft (LEFT) and Daryl Schuchhardt (CENTER) finished in fourth place in the Mobridge Ice Fishing Tournament on Saturday. The pair caught six walleye totaling 16.37 pounds. The winning team had 20.17 pounds. There were 522 two-man teams in the contest with 1090 walleye caught, weighing 2178 pounds.